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Human endurance with Lewis Gordon Pugh

The limits of a person are tested continuously in the world of sport. People push themselves mentally and physically to run the fastest, jump the highest and swim the furthest.
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Dave Pickford Elite Climber

Part of Karrimor's team of elite athletes since 2005, Dave is one of Britain's leading traditional climbers with a wide portfolio of major ascents to his credit, stretching from England and Wales to far flung corners of the world such as Arabia, Indo-China, Central Asia, Madagascar, India and North Africa.
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Kilimanjaro

If anyone tells you climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is relatively simple then I can vouch that this story, rather like the world’s highest free-standing mountain, is rather tall.
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Running With the Bulls, Pamplona Style

It’s when the sound of the rocket is heard that the fear really kicks in. Standing at the end of a long street you have less than two minutes to contemplate what you are about to do.
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Preparing for Kilimanjaro

There were two common responses to the news that I was planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. One was that climbing the world’s tallest free standing mountain was not overly hard, and that quite a few people knew of someone who has achieved this very feat.
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Performing Kung Fu with the Shaolin Monks

Half an hour into the show and it is fair to say that the 1,600 people packed into the Liverpool Empire have never seen anything like this before in their lives.
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